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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · 4d

The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance - @producing2power.bsky.social, & @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social (2025). Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Aug 24

In our new article with @producing2power.bsky.social, we examine the tensions and labor dynamics faced by Latin American influencers working in the U.S. Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social.

International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social · Dec 9

What are the impediments faced by diasporic influencers? Learn about how racial discourses shape and challenge creator cultures in this article from @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @producing2power.bsky.social:

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Aug 13

Great piece written by @samshorey.bsky.social www.firesidestacks.com/p/patchwork-...

Patchwork Nation: From Code to Cleaning, AI Is Beginning to Devalue Everyone’s Work

AI anxiety is becoming a bipartisan issue. The tech sector was once a seemingly unshakable source of solid employment. Now people who can code are facing the same threats of potential obsolescence as ...

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Jan 2

This book is now open access. Happy to have contributed a chapter titled "Chilean Fashion Influencers as Digital Labour: Unpacking the 'Media Kit' as a Market Device." One of my earliest findings from a project exploring Chile's influencer industry.

Digital Platforms and the Global South | Reconfiguring Power Relations

This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Aug 6

This story is important - but it centers the experiences of passengers. Almost every driver I have talked to - yes, men included - also complain of sexual harassment or assault.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem

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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · Jul 22

The new @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Fairwork AI Ratings report shows who powers AI and how Humans in the Loop earned a 6/10 score after 14 policy changes.

@towardsfairwork.bsky.social now offers certification so buyers can demand higher standards across AI supply chains.

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International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social · Dec 9

What are the impediments faced by diasporic influencers? Learn about how racial discourses shape and challenge creator cultures in this article from @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @producing2power.bsky.social:

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Mar 13

I ask Chat GPT about the concept of Social Media Influencers and it gives me a critical answer, citing the work of different colleagues (Abidin, Bishop, Baym, Duffy, Cotter, Hund, Craig, to give some names) and my own work. I don't know what to think.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · Jan 16

Now that ICA reviews are out, a reminder that we’re doing a nice big creator culture preconference where your work might fit. Deadline Jan 31 www.ccsn.site/ica

CCSN

The Content Creator Scholars Network

www.ccsn.site

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Jan 16

We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...

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Matías Valderrama @mvaldeb.bsky.social · Jan 2

These people never stop giving material for my thesis. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, replacing Nick Clegg | Semafor

Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Jan 2

This book is now open access. Happy to have contributed a chapter titled "Chilean Fashion Influencers as Digital Labour: Unpacking the 'Media Kit' as a Market Device." One of my earliest findings from a project exploring Chile's influencer industry.

Digital Platforms and the Global South | Reconfiguring Power Relations

This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Dec 21

It looks very interesting. Congratulations and thanks for sharing it.

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Dec 20

Open access link to download PDF of the book is live. New book - Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Published by Polity Books. Also details on pbk & hbk purchase. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Dec 13

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M Amir @ibalilebali.bsky.social · Dec 12

[NEWS]: Website is live. planetaryai.net

Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of #AI from the Majority World perspective
1st phase examines the value chains of #data #work The 2nd phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI.

Planetary AI

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Dec 5

In the U.S., social media content creation is excluded from the census. As The Washington Post headlined in 2023, “millions work as creators. In official records, they barely exist.” Great piece by @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/brooke...

Why Labor Protection For Creators Is An Uphill Battle

Creators have few legal safeguards, especially when it comes to labor concerns. But change may be on the horizon.

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · Dec 1

Around the world, communities are pushing back against data centers. One of the most notable campaigns happened in Cerrillos, Chile.

Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is
@slehuede.bsky.social!

Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/116662...

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Nov 29

The research team for the project "Singing for the Algorithm": Spotify and its impact on the production, distribution, and monetization of music in Chile (funded by Chile's Ministry of the Arts and Culture): Ana, Maca, Diego, and me. Soon, we will publish the results :)

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Nov 27

Gracias Juan!

Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Nov 27

Thanks!

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Nov 27

I find it quite difficult to locate the people I used to follow on X/Twitter here. Are there any recommended lists or packages on creator culture, gig work, platform studies, or digital culture to help me connect with scholars? Thanks.

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Nov 26

This book is about labor, consumption, and life in platform capitalism – for all of us who inhabit the relation in-convenience. Convenience is an entry point into logistics, streaming media, data centers, sleep apps and much else.

Cover text read In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround.
Edited by Joshua Neves and Marc Steinberg

Back matter of the book reads:
Convenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates our platformed present. As such, it poses urgent techno-political questions about the everyday digital habitus. From next-day delivery, gig work, and tele-health to cashless payment systems, data centers, and policing – convenience is an affordance and an enclosure; our logistical surround. Driving every experience of convenience is the precarious work, proprietary algorithms, or predatory schemes that subtend it. This collaborative book traces how the logistical surround is transformed by thickening digital economies and networked rituals, examining contemporary conveniences across a wide range of practices and geographies. Contributors examine the ineluctable relation between convenience and its constitutive opposite, inconvenience, considering its infrastructural, affective, and compulsory dimensions. Living in convenience is thus both a hyper visible manifestation of so-called late capitalism and a pervasive mood that fades into the background (like the data centers that power it). Bringing the agonistic relation of in/convenience to center stage, this volume analyzes the logistics of delivery, streaming porn, cloud computing, water infrastructures, smartness paradigms, convenience stores, sleep apps, surveillance, AI ethics, and much more – rethinking the cultural politics of convenience for the present conjuncture.

Editor bios:

Joshua Neves is Associate Professor, Concordia University, and author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy.

Marc Steinberg is Professor of Cinema, Concordia University, and author of The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet.

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